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  <title>:visited pseudo-class</title>
  <style type="text/css">p.test a { background-color : red }
p.test *:visited { background-color : lime }</style>
  <link rel="author" title="Daniel Glazman" href="http://glazman.org/">
  <link rel="author" title="Ian Hickson" href="mailto:ian@hixie.ch">
  <link rel="help" href="https://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#selectors"> <!-- bogus link to make sure it gets found -->
  <meta name="flags" content=" history">
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 <body>
<p class="test">
<a href="http://www.w3.org/">You should see a green background assigned by the anchor.</a>
(Note: You must have visited http://www.w3.org/ for this test to be valid.)
</p>

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